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What a 1921 lettering treatise says about planning a lettered panel for reproduction
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For designers and hand-letterers curious how a period text plans a lettered panel: a small sketch, a full-size pencil drawing, free-hand inking, guide lines, and how much to reduce for reproduction. It documents one section of a 1921 book with line references; it speaks for hand lettering of its time, not digital tools, and nothing was tested.
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Guide title
What a 1921 lettering treatise says about planning a lettered panel for reproduction
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For designers and hand-letterers curious how a period text plans a lettered panel: a small sketch, a full-size pencil drawing, free-hand inking, guide lines, and how much to reduce for reproduction. It documents one section of a 1921 book with line references; it speaks for hand lettering of its time, not digital tools, and nothing was tested.
Useful starting points
- The text says a drawing is sure to suffer if reduced too much; less reduction is more reliable but needs more careful drawing.
- It suggests settling balance and spacing in a tiny thumbnail sketch before drawing at full size.
- It advises penciled guide lines for lettering, with perpendicular lines to guard against tilt and sloping lines for sloping letters.
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